What linguistics is all aboutSentence in its contextA text is like the description of a scene in a theater play. It alludes to an action which occurs at a certain place, at a certain time, in certain circumstances. It make sense in a context of utterance, with a given speaker, an intended audience, and with respect to known background facts. Certain elements of this context are extra-linguistic, but language has also its way to ground a sentence within an enunciation, with deictics.Va, cours, vole et nous venge.There is no way to understand this sentence if you do not understand a number of elements. Remark: “nous” (“we”) is actually ambiguous.What is this? |